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For young livestock herders, their animals are everything. Simple changes to their daily routines, like where to take their animals to graze, can really make the difference between life and death for wildlife like lions.

More than 350 children recently congregated around Mbamba Village in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve to celebrate lions. The occasion was the seventh annual Lion Fun Days, held by Niassa Lion Project (NLP).

What was a stuffed saiga antelope doing in Kenya? The little toy saiga traveled the whole way from Uzbekistan with mother-daughter team Elena Bykova and Olga Espiova of Saiga Conservation Alliance to serve as an ambassador from a faraway land.

Connecting with children on conservation has many benefits. In the short-term, children can become excellent advocates of wildlife to their families and communities, and in the long-term teaching children about conservation can help them grow into adults who care about the environment.

Last June a group of poachers and illegal gold miners, labeled as rebels, attacked the Okapi Wildlife Reserve and the nearby town of Epulu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A former elephant poacher who operates under the nom de guerre “Morgan” led the attack. The area remains unstable, but an outpouring of support has helped the Okapi Conservation Project work with the devastated community and begin to rebuild the Reserve.

We recently received a report that painted dogs had killed a goat in a nearby village. This was not the first time we had received such a report. However, the immediate investigation by our staff member Jealous, did confirm that, sadly, this was the first recorded case in more than twenty years of painted dogs actually killing livestock in our core operating area. The previous reports had all been false alarms.